Pearl, kingfisher feather and amber hairpin, qing dynasty, 26.4 cm long.
Hairpin, 18th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978.428.1. CC0.

Zan (hairpin)

Hairpin

Chinese name
簪
Pinyin
zan
Dimensions
length 26.4 cm; width 6 cm
Accession no.
1978.428.1
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is a hairpin in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated by the museum to the Qing Dynasty. The recorded medium is metal, amber, pearl, feathers. Its recorded length is 26.4 cm long. Accession number 1978.428.1, gift of Shoji Yamanaka, in memory of Alan Priest, 1978.

This description is a direct summary of the museum's own record, not an independent assessment. It is awaiting editorial rewriting; the facts it states are the ones the holding institution asserts.

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